The 1920–21 season was the 24th in the history of the
Western Football League
The Western Football League is a association football, football league in South West England, covering Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, western Dorset, parts of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. The league's current main sponsor is Jewson, so it ...
.
The Division One champions this season were
Bristol City
Bristol City Football Club is a professional football club based in Bristol, England. The team compete in the , the second level of the English football league system.
Founded in 1894, the club competed in the Southern League and Western L ...
Reserves, for the second time in their history. Champions of Division Two were
Peasedown St John
Peasedown St John (commonly referred to as Peasedown) is a large village and civil parish in Somerset, England, standing on a hilltop roughly south-southwest of the city of Bath, and north-east of the town of Radstock at the foot of the Mend ...
, who gained promotion to Division One along with
Trowbridge Town
Trowbridge Town Football Club is a football club based in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England. They compete at Step 7 in the and play at Woodmarsh, on the southern edge of the town.
History
A Trowbridge Town team was originally formed in 1880 and ...
.
[Robinson, Michael (ed.), Non-League Football Tables 1889–2006, Soccer Books, 2006]
Division One
Eight new clubs joined Division One this season, and the number of clubs increased from 10 to 16 after
Horfield United and
Newport County Reserves left the league.
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Abertillery Town
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Cardiff City
Cardiff City Football Club () is a professional association football club based in Cardiff, Wales. It currently competes in , the third tier of the English football league system in the 2025–26 season following relegation. Founded in 1899 a ...
Reserves, rejoining the league after leaving in 1914
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Cardiff Corinthians
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Exeter City
Exeter City Football Club is a professional association football club based in Exeter, Devon, England. The team play in , the third level of the English football league system. Known as "the Grecians", the origin of their nickname is subject to ...
Reserves
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Mid Rhondda
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Pontypridd
Pontypridd ( , ), Colloquialism, colloquially referred to as ''Ponty'', is a town and a Community (Wales), community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales, approximately 10 miles north west of Cardiff city centre.
Geography
Pontypridd comprises the ...
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Ton Pentre
Ton Pentre () is a village in the Rhondda, Rhondda Valley in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Historic counties of Wales, Historically part of Glamorgan, Ton Pentre, a former industrial coal mining village, is a district of the comm ...
, rejoining the league after leaving in 1910
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Yeovil and Petters United, promoted from Division Two
Abertillery Town, Mid Rhondda, Pontypridd and Ton Pentre were also members of the
Southern League (Welsh section) during this season. All four clubs left the Western League at the end of the season to concentrate on the Southern League.
Division Two
Three new clubs joined Division Two this season, and the number of clubs increased from eight to ten after
Yeovil and Petters United were promoted.
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Clandown
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Radstock Town, rejoining the league after leaving in 1910
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Welton Amateurs
References
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1920-21
1920–21 in English football leagues
1920–21 in Welsh football